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| author | Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl> | 2023-03-07 20:25:58 +0100 |
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| committer | Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl> | 2023-03-08 15:32:59 +0100 |
| commit | 8c51e1520ba96a0d19ddecccc57899eed2634750 (patch) | |
| tree | 3fcdcfc93e934258642a476c20efc420fb58d07e /man/libudev.xml | |
| parent | 1a87882635b921df2ee26ea5c9a3e3210e2fd077 (diff) | |
| download | systemd-8c51e1520ba96a0d19ddecccc57899eed2634750.tar.gz | |
man: add mention that libsystemd uses getenv()
See #26688: getenv() is not thread-safe, and could a possible source of
problems when a multi-threaded program calls setenv()/putenv()/unsetenv() in
parallel. It is not possible to avoid getenv() calls in general, since $PATH,
$LANG, $SHELL, $USER, $HOME, $TZ may need to be accessed at any time.
Add a warning to our docs so that people are aware of the issue.
Closes #26688. (Real fixes will need to be in glibc and gnome-shell or other
programs.)
The text is added to threads-aware.xml to be included in various places. By
including it in libsystemd-pkgconfig.xml, it is automatically added to all sd-*
pages. The text is also included explicitly in pages for a few other functions
which are call getenv().
Diffstat (limited to 'man/libudev.xml')
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1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/man/libudev.xml b/man/libudev.xml index c2a42cbfd4..684bd47fcd 100644 --- a/man/libudev.xml +++ b/man/libudev.xml @@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ a udev context.</para> <xi:include href="threads-aware.xml" xpointer="strict"/> + <xi:include href="threads-aware.xml" xpointer="getenv"/> <para>To introspect a local device on a system, a udev device object can be created via |